[610] New York Evening Post, May 4, 1872.
[611] Warden, Life of Chase, p. 732.
[612] Appleton's Cyclopædia, 1872, p. 779.
[613] July 9, 1872.
[614] New York Tribune, November 1, 1871. Cox's election to Congress from New York occurred in 1870, three years after he became a resident of the State.
[615] Myers, History of Tammany, pp. 301, 305.
[616] Ibid., pp. 261 and note, 300 and 301.
[617] "About the same time, and in adjoining city districts, two bosses entered upon public life. While Tweed was learning to make chairs, Kelly was being taught grate-setting. While Tweed was amusing himself as a runner with a fire engine, Kelly was captain of the Carroll Target Guard. Tweed led fire laddies and Kelly dragged about target-shooters upon the eve of elections. Both entered the Board of Aldermen about the same time. About the same time, too, they went to Congress. Within a few years of each other's candidacy they ran for sheriff. Tweed was defeated. Kelly was elected. While Kelly was making bills as sheriff, Tweed was auditing them in the Board of Supervisors. Tweed became the Tammany boss, and Kelly succeeded him. Tweed fell a victim to his greed, Kelly escaped by the Statute of Limitations."—New York Times, October 30, 1875.
[618] Of the 46 opposition votes, James A. Bayard received 6 from Delaware and 9 from New Jersey; Jeremiah S. Black 21 from Pennsylvania; William S. Groesbeck 2 from Ohio. There were 8 blanks.
[619] New York Tribune, July 11, 1872.